Category Archives: writer’s block

Mindy Speaks Her Fear About the 10K Day

MINDY LAWRENCE of MPL Creative has kindly allowed me to reprint some remarks she had shared by email. This might be helpful to others, so I admire her courage in allowing me to include her name on this post. Also, I know a technique that Mindy—or anyone experiencing fear or writer’s block—can use to encourage…

Continue Reading »

Writer’s Block? Use the Whiplash of Your Inner Critic to Make It Across the Drawbridge

By Milli Thornton THREE DAYS BEFORE Christmas, 2003, I was sitting in Wired! coffee house with Theresa and Daniel, two members of the Taos, New Mexico Fertile Material Writing Circle. We were in the throes of what we always do in these writing circles, which is to pick a writing prompt from my book, write…

Continue Reading »